Mitchell Library Alphabet – To celebrate their 100th anniversary the Mitchell Library (the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia) unveils this beautiful and education alphabet. Each letter is made up of bits and pieces from their eclectic collection. Some of the letters are accompanied by videos explaining the origins of their constituent parts all wrapped in a lovely interactive web interface. (via I love Typography)

Measuring Type – Delightfully unscientific exploration of how much ink common different typefaces use at the same point size. Designers Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth drew them on a wall using ball point pens and then used the pens themselves as a graph showing the results. (via The Ministry of Type)

Hearing Type (PDF) – In this essay, Frank Armstrong presents the structure of his analogy between music and typography, and then proposes it as the foundation of an instructional method for understanding static and kinetic typography. (via TypeCulture)

Designing For The Switch – Nice overview on web vs. print fonts by UK designer Mark Boulton.

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